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Date: 05/19/2023
In an invited review article recently published in the medical journal, “Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care,” Research Professor Zora Djuric, Ph.D. of the Department of Family Medicine found that by including more fiber, plant-based foods, omega-3 fatty acids and whole grains, people can mitigate the adverse health effects of high fat diets and obesity on their microbiome.
Date: 05/18/2023
Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer have received a $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to understand the role myeloid cells play in how pancreatic cancer develops and progresses.
Date: 04/27/2023
Professor Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS, of the Department of Family Medicine, has been elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP). She was inducted at a formal ceremony on Saturday, April 22, 2023, in Chicago.
Date: 04/25/2023
Andrew Shuman, M.D., FACS, HEC-C, chief of the clinical ethics service in Michigan Medicine’s Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences, recently testified before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for the United States Senate regarding critical drug shortages.
Date: 04/21/2023
A team of University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center researchers have received a $3.07 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a model for long-term surveillance and care of younger adults treated for colorectal cancer.
Date: 04/21/2023
Michelle Kim, M.D., associate professor of radiation oncology at Michigan Medicine, has received a Research Specialist Award from the National Cancer Institute to pursue clinical research efforts at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and nationally. Kim’s focus is on clinical research for central nervous system (CNS) tumors.
Date: 04/20/2023
A team from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and School of Dentistry, led by Yu Leo Lei, D.D.S., Ph.D., have identified a mechanism in mice for how obesity affects some oral cancers’ ability to escape from the immune system.
Date: 04/17/2023
A study from University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center researchers surveyed the partners of colorectal cancer patients and found the financial impact of a loved one’s diagnosis also impacts the partner’s health-related quality of life.
Date: 04/17/2023
In a study involving 30 pancreata from donors with no known gastrointestinal disease, researchers found precancerous lesions called pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia in the majority of the organs. They also discovered that the lesions bore a similar gene expression signature to that of pancreatic cancer. These findings upend conventional wisdom that all PanIN are necessarily precursors to pancreatic cancer; given that the incidence of pancreatic cancer is relatively low, it’s not likely that all (or any) of the lesions are indicators of future cancer.
Date: 04/14/2023
Researchers at the U-M Rogel Cancer Center created a standardized metric for nerve density to clarify the variation in distribution of nerves in the oral cavity, called normalized nerve density, and showed its importance in oral cancer tumor progression.

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